Rear Window.ppt

Rear Window Alfred Hitchcock, 1954 Alfred Hitchcock Studied at the London County Council School of Engineering and Navigation in Poplar, London. he became a draftsman and advertising designer became intrigued by photography and started working in film production in London title-card designer (for silent movies) for the London branch of what would become Paramount Pictures. In 5 years he became a director The Man Who Knew Too Much (1934) The 39 Steps (1935), is often considered one of the best films from his early period. in 1939 he received a 7 year Hollywood movie contract and he moved to the USA Rebecca, 1940 (Academy Award, Best Picture) (Work was diverse in the 40’s) romantic comedy, courtroom drama, and Noir In 1940, he moved to Scott’s Valley in the Santa Cruz mountains Became producer/director and shot Suspicion there Spellbound, 1945 Notorious, 1946 (plot included uranium which led to Hitchcock being under surveillance by the FBI Rope, 1948 Recurring Attributes Gallows Humor Suspense Voyeurism (from subjective viewpoints) Confined spaces: Rear Window, Lifeboat and Rope Elisabeth Weis: The Silent Scream - Alfred Hitchcocks Sound Track (1982) a character—and the viewer for whom he is a surrogate—can misinterpret events according to his own preconceptions. The most persuasive way of demonstrating the seductiveness of such misinterpretations is to let the viewer make the same mistake. Having been seduced into adopting a characters point of view that is later exposed as illusion Rear Window (1954) is the film that quintessentially presents a subjective point of view within an apparently realistic style. The single obvious distortion is the overloud sound Thornwald. Mise en Scene Shot on a very large sound stage Takes place almost entirely in a single room Francois Truffault in Cahiers du Cinema wrote about how the mise en scene in Rear Window is a metaphor for the cinema Laura Mulvey in Visual Pleasure and narrative cinema (change in Jeff’s desire towards L